Lessons in hipness ... from Harrisburg, PA

Harrisburg, PA is a rustbelt city that, while smaller than Detroit, faces some of the same image issues. Here, the writer looks at aspects of the city's Restaurant Row that combined to make it a successful entertainment district.

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You know hip when you see it in Coconut Grove in Miami, Buckhead in Atlanta or LoDo in Denver. But what does hip look like in Harrisburg, Pa.? OK, probably not South Beach cool, but some of the elements that make entertainment districts click in big cities are at work in Harrisburg's surprisingly successful Restaurant Row.

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